Share market update: Infra stocks gain; NBCC jumps 5%

NEW DELHI: Shares of infrastructure companies were trading with gains in Wednesday's afternoon session.

Shares of Bharat Heavy Electricals (up 9.57 per cent) , InterGlobe Aviation (up 7.52 per cent) , Engineers India (up 6.12 per cent) and Suzlon Energy (up 5.66 per cent) were trading in the green.

NBCC (India) (up 5.46 per cent) , Reliance Infrastructure (up 4.87 per cent) , NCC (up 4.75 per cent) and Reliance Power (up 2.99 per cent) too were traidng with gains.


The Nifty Infrastructure index was trading 0.98 per cent up at 3315.55 around 12:23 pm.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 72.05 points at 11,858.90 while the BSE Sensex was up 272.93 points at 40,104.77.

Among the 50 stocks in Nifty index, 31 were trading in the green, while 19 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, Tata Motors, BHEL, SBI, HDFC Life Insurance Company, ITC, Bank of Baroda and SAIL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.